Sentence examples for more severe conduct from inspiring English sources

Specifically, callous-unemotional (CU) traits (e.g. lack of guilt, absence of empathy, callous use of others) are relatively stable and are associated with more severe conduct problems, delinquency, or aggression.

In comparison with the total sample, children from the high-start, mixed-response and high-start, first-phase response groups could be described as younger, receiving a lower dose of MPH before study start, receiving a lower dose of MR-MPH at Visits 1 and 2, and showing more severe conduct problems and an average level of emotional symptoms (Table  2).

It is possible that superior cognitive perspective-taking and relatively more severe antisocial conduct in certain CD children develop contemporaneously without direct causal links.

Such creativity may have limits: referees could easily spy a can of Pepsi in a running back's back pocket, which might carry a penalty more severe than unsportsmanlike conduct because Coca-Cola is the league's soft drink sponsor.

Present findings indicated that CD-low-CU children were inferior in cognitive perspective-taking relative to controls and to CD-high-CU children who display a more severe pattern of antisocial conduct.

The more severe the symptoms of conduct disorder are in a child, the more likely the child is to develop antisocial personality disorder as an adult.

Interviews were conducted either on an individual basis for the day hospital clients or in the care homes where the residents had more severe dementia, interviews were conducted with the resident with dementia and one or more family members.

In summary, CU traits can be assessed reliably and have been demonstrated to consistently designate a subgroup within antisocial youth with a more severe and pervasive pattern of conduct problems and poorer treatment outcomes.

The areas of the northern Ukraine where the study was conducted have more severe iodine insufficiency than the study areas in Belarus, where at the time of screening two-thirds of study participants were iodine deficient with urine levels <100  μg l−1 (Table 1).

Results suggest that increasing ASD symptomatology within ADHD is associated with a more severe phenotype in terms of oppositional, conduct and anxiety symptoms, lower full-scale IQ, working memory deficits and general motor problems.

Second, the results might be affected by selection bias towards patients with more severe disease, since the study was conducted in a hospital setting.